Airing on TV for only one year, the cartoon Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines's legacy was retained by an adorable board game released by Milton Bradley that same year.

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1970

Mastermind

You may not recognize this classic game by its old-school box cover. It's little creepy and murder mystery-esque, no?

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1971

Uno

Fun fact: Uno was invented by a barbershop owner in Ohio who created the card game to play with his family. When he realized it had the potential to be popular, he started to sell it out of his barbershop–and the rest is history.

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Courtesy of The Museum of Play

1972

Woody Woodpecker's Crazy Mixed-Up Color Factory Game

While this game is no longer in production today, there's no denying that its set of 48 paint chips and "help[ing] poor confused Woody straighten up his crazy mixed up color factory" (as it says on the box) would've made for an interesting pastime.

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1973

Perfection

Most of us who grew up playing this game can agree on one thing: There was nothing more suspenseful than waiting for Perfection's pieces to fly up in your face.

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1974

Connect Four

The basis of this game is incredibly simple, so we'll admit it's a bit surprising it was only invented a little over 30 years ago.

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1975

Pay Day

While you may have never heard of Pay Day, during its first year of production in 1975, it was so popular it outsold Monopoly.

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1976

Starship Troopers

Based off the novel written by Robert A. Heinlein, the Starship Troopers board game was popular way before the movie franchise took the stage in the late 90s.

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1977

Pente

You may be quick to assume that an abstract, strategy-based game like Pente (similar to checkers or chess) may take a lot of thought to invent, but it was actually created by a dishwasher at a pizza parlor in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Venture out to Hideaway Pizza today and you'll still find patrons enjoying the game over a slice or two.

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1978

Rummikub

First created in Israel by a Jewish immigrant, it only took a year for Rummikub to become a best seller in the United States.

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1979

Guess Who?

The original version of Guess Who? included most of the 24 characters we knew playing it growing up (with only five females to choose from), but since then many limited edition versions have been released, such as Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel Comics.

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1980

Doctor Who

The cult TV show that's aired in Britain since 1963 on the BBC Channel was also a popular board game in the US.

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1981

The Dukes of Hazzard

Anyone who's anyone (or at least old enough to have seen the 2005 movie revival) will recognize these faces (and that car) anywhere.

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Courtesy of The Museum of Play

1982

Pac-Man

Because when you couldn't hit up the arcade back in the 80s, there was always the board game option.

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1983

Topple

Topple is designed to help little kids learn how to balance through the design of physics, but that's not to say it wasn't a fun game for the whole family to play.

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1984

Trivial Pursuit

It was a cabinet staple then, and it's definitely still a cabinet staple now.

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1985

Advance to the Boardwalk

The younger brother of Monopoly, Advance to the Boardwalk turned the tables on the classic game by basing it off the Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk. We're keen on this game because honestly, who doesn't a enjoy a little Jersey shore loving in the summer time?

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1986

Pictionary

Twenty years ago, Angel Games started publishing the game that will forever have families screaming random words at each other for the rest of eternity.

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1987

Jenga

If only we had thought to box up a few pieces of wood and called it a family game.

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Courtesy of the Museum of Play

1988

Titanic the Board Game

Jack and Rose may not have come for another ten years or so, but families all over the US were already imagining what it was like to be aboard the Titanic way before the flick thanks to this game.

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1989

Taboo

Otherwise known as the game your parents wouldn't let you participate in until you were sixteen.

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1990

Pretty Pretty Princess

Any 90s girl most likely has a picture stashed away of her donning these plastic jewelry pieces when she was five years old.

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1991

Electronic Dream Phone

Is anything more 90s than this mock, neon pink cellphone that people actually called a board game? Nope, nope there is not.

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